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What’s the Difference between No-Code and Low-Code App Development?

What’s the Difference between No-Code and Low-Code App Development? What’s the Difference between No-Code and Low-Code App Development?

What’s the Difference between No-Code and Low-Code App Development?

Traditionally, a company that required apps depended solely on the highly specialized skills and knowledge of coders to develop the apps they need. This resulted in long wait times for apps and significant operational inefficiencies that left organizations struggling to fulfill their needs.

Add to this the increased need for digital apps and shortage of developers in recent years and it becomes clear that IT teams need a way to build powerful apps quickly with the resources at hand. Fortunately, this is where no-code and low-code app development come in.

No-Code vs. Low-Code App Development

At first glance, no-code and low-code seem like the same thing, and they are often confused with one another. However, there are subtle differences between the two that you should know. With this in mind, let’s start by defining these types of app development.

No-code app development is a method of building apps that requires absolutely no coding knowledge or experience. This is a way for non-professional developers, such as employees outside of the IT department, to build the apps they need quickly and easily. These apps can be built using a visual interface and drag-and-drop building platform that contains all the elements required to build an app within minutes. Think of it as similar to a website-building platform.

In contrast, low-code app development is a more flexible method of building apps that still has the drag-and-drop visual interface for people who don’t know programming languages. However, there may be minimal hand-coding required, particularly when you want to customize these applications.

Advantages and Disadvantages of No-Code App Development

What’s the Difference between No-Code and Low-Code App Development?

The greatest advantage of no-code app development is that it doesn’t require any coding to build an app. Anyone can quickly develop an app and launch it with the click of a button. This is the ideal solution when you need an app that will solve a specific problem within a department or a company, making it easy to address an immediate need without having to tap into your IT resources.

There are two major disadvantages of no-code app development to be aware of. The first of these is that the apps that can be built will be fairly basic. However, when they are needed to solve a specific problem, this is generally not a problem. The other disadvantage to no-code app development is that it can be easy for people within an organization to develop apps without proper consideration or supervision, resulting in possible security concerns, problems with integration, and compliance issues.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Low-Code App Development

Low-code app development comes with several advantages. Apps can be developed quickly, which means there is no more waiting for app development when working on a larger project. In addition, app development costs less, increasing your ROI, while lowering your risk. And with a single click, an app can be deployed and changes to the app can be made as people interact with it.

However, like no-code app development, there are disadvantages to using low-code app development. Prime among these is the fact that with just a low level of coding knowledge, you will find there is a steep learning curve. Low-code apps are not easily suited to building enterprise-grade apps that offer the high performance, quality and scalability.

No-Code or Low-Code App Development—Which Should You Use?

With the above differences between no-code and low-code app development, you might find it challenging to decide which one you need. No-code app development is ideal for simple front-end apps, such as those that can pull, analyze, report on and export data. No-code app development is also good for apps that perform repetitive tasks and for simple internal apps.

On the other hand, low-code app development is best suited to building standalone web and mobile apps that are more likely to be integrated with other systems and multiple data sources. This method of app development can be used for nearly any type of app, with the exception of highly sophisticated, mission-critical apps that need to be scaled and must interact with multiple systems and data sources.

Connect with a member of the Tangentia team today to learn more about how we can help you use no-code and low-code app development to get the apps you need quickly and easily, while easing the burden on your IT department.

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Low-code app development is becoming increasingly popular, and according to Gartner, it will account for 65% of all app development by 2024. And it’s no wonder.
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What Low-Code App Development Is and Why You Need It

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What Low-Code App Development Is and Why You Need It

Not so long ago, the only way to develop and build an application was to write many lines of code for each app. This meant it took software developers a long time to develop apps, forcing them to focus on apps that had the biggest business impact. Fast-forward to today and we are witnessing the modernization of app development, thanks to the low-code approach.

Low-code app development is becoming increasingly popular, and according to Gartner, it will account for 65% of all app development by 2024. And it’s no wonder. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the speed at which businesses and other organizations have had to adopt the use of mobile apps and remote technology.

What Is Low-Code App Development?

Low-code app development has completely modernized the app development process. It is a method of developing apps that requires very little code to be written from scratch. Instead, app developers using the low-code approach to app development have access to a graphic user interface that makes app development intuitive.

Enterprise-grade apps can be developed primarily through the use of a visual drag-and-drop process that requires very little hand-coding. Low-code app development also makes it possible to automate many aspects of app development, increasing the efficiency of the development process.

Why Low-Code App Development Is Necessary

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There are several advantages to low-code app development that organizations can benefit from. At the core of these advantages is the fact that apps can be developed more quickly and easily than ever. Here is a closer look at how low-code app development benefits organizations:

  • People with limited coding knowledge can develop simple apps, taking some of the burden off the IT department so they can focus on more complex app development and reducing the IT backlog.
  • The development process is simplified by the ability to use drag-and-drop to create interfaces that allow for cross-platform deployment, with any code required being translated automatically so there is no need to code in various languages.
  • With existing staff being able to help with app development, organizations can reduce costs by minimizing the number of developers they need to have on staff.
  • Developers can focus more on innovation and building complex apps that will help companies meet their business objectives and retain their competitive edge.
  • Productivity will increase across teams when business teams possess the ability to develop the simple apps they need without the need to wait for developers.
  • Companies can pivot more quickly with the ability to develop and change apps more quickly, making it easier for them to keep up with changes in how employees work and how consumers interact with them.
  • The need for app maintenance is reduced with the use of standardized app components that are pre-made and pre-tested, meaning there are fewer bugs in each new app that is developed.
  • App development is democratized by flattening the learning curve for low-level app developers and non-developers when it comes to using specialized app development tools.

How Automation Can Help

Organizations of all kinds have an increasing need for apps—both customer-facing and employee-facing. By adopting a low-code app development strategy, you will simplify and revolutionize the way your organization develops the apps you need, getting the right apps in front of the right users faster than ever before.

Connect with a member of the Tangentia team today to learn more about how we can help you use low-code app development to streamline your app development process.

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Women in Tech: Boosting Innovation and Profitability

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Women in Tech: Boosting Innovation and Profitability

What is the ADE framework?

If companies are to thrive amid the rapid transformation we continue to experience, they must reorient the relationships between society, government, and the way we do business. The ability to adapt to these changes, increase investment in digital transformation, and evolve to new business models will enable companies to better prepare for a future of growth.

The Autonomous Digital Enterprise is the framework for the successful future enterprise. It’s a digital-first business with distinct tech tenets and operating model characteristics that support transformation through actionable insights, business agility, and customer centricity.

Tech tenets

Leveraging and optimizing technology is key to ADE evolution. We’ve identified five technology tenets where an ADE should dedicate its efforts and investments by developing skills and curating solutions and tools for maximum impact. Coupled with the operating models listed below, these technology tenets represent the focus for successful outcomes of an ADE.

Transcendent customer experience

Deliver an omnichannel, multimodal, cloud-first experience powered by AI that:

  • Gives customers and employees what they need by making technology feel more human
  • Enables rich do-it-yourself experiences backed by human expertise
  • Recognizes any device as a channel for interaction
  • Leverages analytics and orchestration for a frictionless experience

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Embrace new and emerging technologies and harness explosive data growth to drive highly automated business processes that are orchestrated, controlled, and executed by software. In an ADE, automation is a complementary business function that augments human effort. By exploiting automation across the datacenter and to the edge, organizations can:

  • Execute with efficiency and scale
  • Free up employees from mundane tasks
  • Lower costs while improving customer interaction

Enterprise devops

Adopt and develop DevOps processes, tools, skills, teams, and leadership across software initiatives and existing portfolios to:

  • Drive business agility, enable innovation, and delight customers
  • Optimize for rapid continuous delivery of applications and services
  • Embrace cultural and behavioral change to create a frictionless environment for success
  • Propel security initiatives (DevSecOps) and data pipeline automation (DataOps)

Data-driven business

Create value from and monetize assets by making data central to the business, prioritizing robust analytics capabilities, and supporting a systematic approach to data strategy, architecture, operations, and execution. A data-centric mindset will allow businesses to:

  • Extract enterprise-wide data, including IoT, social media, and customer engagement systems
  • Employ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to optimize, improve, guide, and execute actions
  • Monetize data assets with high-value business use cases

Adaptive cybersecurity

Manage the growing risk landscape that has far exceeded the capacity for manual human intervention by automatically and programmatically mitigating new and evolving threats across the digital landscape:

  • Extract enterprise-wide data, including IoT, social media, and customer engagement systems
  • Employ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to optimize, improve, guide, and execute actions
  • Monetize data assets with high-value business use cases

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Actionable insights

By leveraging newer technologies and analytics, an ADE can move beyond data correlations and business or system alerts towards true actionable insights, broader perspectives, and predictive intelligence to drive faster, better decision making.

Business agility

Failing to meet the changes demanded by internal and external customers leads to irrelevance. By automating rote and redundant tasks, organizations gain the flexibility to better understand and guide the digital enterprise towards innovation, leading to significant improvements in customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

Customer centricity

Companies with the highest customer satisfaction scores returned double shareholder value over ten years. By minimizing the effort required to manage the large, complex digital enterprise, employees are freed up to work closer with business lines and customers to better understand the dynamically changing market and provide a superior experience.

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Tangentia’s North American Sales and Leadership Expanding

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Tangentia’s North American Sales and Leadership Expanding

Tangentia is proud to announce the expansion of our North American sales and leadership team. We understand the value people bring to our organization and it has been our goal since expanding into the USA. to create job opportunities for professionals throughout North America who want to be part of the quickly evolving artificial intelligence and automation industry.

Robert Lye

We are excited to announce that Robert Lye is joining our leadership team as Vice President & Chief Evangelist – Automation. Robert will bring thought leadership and transformational thinking to Tangentia customers to aid in building and growing successful intelligent automation programs and accelerating value realization.

Seasoned by hands-on real-world experience, Robert offers great insights into the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation and will be an integral part of ensuring our customers have the tools and support they need to navigate the fast-paced world of automation.

“I am honored and humbled to be joining the Tangentia Family and to work alongside a remarkably talented team,” Robert says. “I am extremely excited for the journey ahead and look forward to enhancing the success of Tangentia customers.”

Joseph Saad

Also new to the Tangentia team is Joseph Saad, who joins us as our new Sales Account Executive based in Montreal, Canada. He speaks English, French, and Arabic and comes with a very experienced background in sales. Joseph has already embarked on his journey at Tangentia, and we look forward to building a robust Montreal-based team in the near future.

Shawn Bakos

We are also pleased to welcome two new members of our executive sales team in the USA. Shawn Bakos is our new Sales Account Executive based in Delaware, USA. He comes with many years of experience in the IT field besides being in the US Navy. An avid sports person who played competitive ice hockey, we are pleased to have Shawn Bakos flying the Tangentia flag on the US East Coast.

Mike Fox

Mike Fox is our new Sales Account Executive based in San Diego, California. Mike is an expert in sales farming, hunting, and fostering profitable win-win deals, and he has a passion for building long-lasting customer relationships. We are excited to have Mike on board and besides bringing on board the warm California sun, we are confident his experience will stand us in good stead on the US West Coast.

Vijay Thomas, Founder and CEO at Tangentia said “It is fantastic to have Robert Lye, take the plunge from being a customer of Tangentia to joining our senior leadership team. It is a ratification of the Tangentia strategy of growth and value creation for our customers.”

George Bennett, VP Sales at Tangentia mentions “ Alongside Bob, we are really excited to have Joseph in Montreal, Mike in San Diego and Shawn in Delaware join our team. It's full steam ahead from now on.”

Tangentia is passionate about bringing the best people onboard, so we can provide top-tier value to our customers through collaboration and innovation. We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for 2022 and we have been certified by the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council as an aboriginal and minority business enterprise.

As one of INC 5000’s Fastest Growing American Companies in 2018 and one of Growth 500’s fastest-growing companies in Canada 6 years in a row, we are always looking for top talent. Visit our Careers page to find out more about how you can become part of the Tangentia team.

Process Mining Defined | What It Is, How It Works, And What It Can Do For Your Business

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Process Mining Defined | What It Is, How It Works, And What It Can Do For Your Business



Legacy business process management is obsolete.

Not that it worked particularly well to begin with. Per The Harvard Business Review, too often when reengineering a process, businesses fail to focus on how the process currently performs. While charting out the way they want things to work, they lose sight of the inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and performance problems within their existing ecosystem.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there are the businesses that embroil themselves too deeply in analyzing their existing processes. In the absence of any effective process management tools, they spend inordinate time and resources on interviews and qualitative observation. The end result is the same.

Nothing gets done.

Even in organizations where roadmapping and analysis are well-balanced, there is a lack of visibility. A lack of connectivity between processes and the business's enterprise information system. Process mining represents the solution to that problem.

What Is Process Mining?

Process mining is essentially the intersection of data science and business process management. The basic idea is that in a modern context, every business process leaves behind a series of digital footprints. Although these are not always visible to data scientists, these footprints can functionally serve as 'breadcrumbs' through which an organization can gain a more complete picture of how its processes and systems intersect.

Process mining isn't actually a new idea. Although the technology to enable it only recently became available, it has existed as a theoretical field of research for over twenty years. The concept was first introduced in 1999 by Will van der Aalst, a Dutch computer scientist who is widely regarded as “the godfather of process mining.”

How Does Process Mining Work?

Process mining can typically be broken into six stages. Note that not every process mining platform applies all of these techniques.

  1. Ingestion and Orchestration. This is where the 'mining' in process mining takes place. Specialized algorithms are used to extract data from business information systems. This data may take many forms, including event logs, audit reports, transaction records, and customer support tickets.
  2. Discovery. The process mining platform leverages the consolidated data from the first step to create models of each process being evaluated. Referred to as process graphs or process maps, these are frequently interactive and explorable, and in some cases may include multiple process paths.
  3. Conformance. As processes are charted out, the algorithm references an intended process model, flagging any deviations so that they might be addressed. Insights from conformance may also be used to improve the existing model, a process typically referred to as performance mining.
  4. Analytics. The platform applies a range of different metrics to its process models, which may further assist in identifying root causes for the application of targeted fixes. This also allows a business to determine the impact each inefficiency has on business outcomes, and by association the return on investment that may be gained by optimizing that process.
  5. Benchmarking. By creating a digital twin of the process, the business can explore multiple scenarios to determine the most effective model. They can also benchmark this twin against their existing process, or leverage an external process model for the same purpose.
  6. Application. The final step is for the business to apply the insights generated in the previous five steps. This is typically best achieved as part of a greater business optimization initiative.

It's important to understand the process mining is ongoing. It is not a project that one can simply mark as finished and forget. There will always be new efficiencies to discover, new bottlenecks to address, and new opportunities to leverage.

What Are The Most Common Use Cases for Process Mining?

Typically, process mining is most commonly applied for one of the following purposes:

  • Human Resources. Improving recruitment, hiring, and onboarding practices. Optimizing employee management, including training, compliance, and performance tracking.
  • General Business Operations. Optimization of common business processes such as report generation, account creation, and approvals.
  • Finance. Enhancing procurement, improving invoice and payment processing, and identifying opportunities to reduce overhead through automation.
  • Software Delivery. More efficient lifecycle management, migration, and deployment. Greater visibility into testing and development.
  • Information Technology. Optimizing network operations, server management, and security controls. Running simulations to ensure more efficient deployments, particularly in hybrid environments.
  • Support. Identifying bottlenecks in ticket routing, and ensuring more effective, efficient resolution for both internal and external support requests.

What Are The Benefits of Process Mining?

The first, most obvious benefit of process mining is that it provides direct, objective insights. It looks 'below the hood' of a business, automatically mapping each process from tangible data. In addition to being less biased, process mining is considerably more accurate than legacy techniques such as surveys or workshops.

The second major benefit is tied to automation. Compared to legacy business process optimization, process mining is significantly more efficient. Because it doesn't require any manual work, this also means it's more cost-effective, as well.

Most process mining platforms also run without interrupting existing systems and processes, meaning you needn't worry about interrupting workflows or having to implement any complicated workarounds.

The application of process mining, as one might expect, can also improve a business in a multitude of ways:

  • Standardization of business processes
  • Improved accuracy, revenue, and outcomes through business process automation.
  • Reduced lead times and reaction times when dealing with customers.
  • Address noncompliance in real-time and analyze audit data more efficiently.
  • Identify bottlenecks and address process conflicts.
  • Eliminate redundant workflows.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Business process optimization has long felt like an uphill battle, but it no longer needs to be. With the advent of process mining, businesses can leverage data science and analytics to gain a level of visibility into business operations which would have previously been impossible. And through that visibility, they can make better, more informed decisions.

And more importantly, they can do so in a way that allows them to clearly demonstrate their efforts to senior leadership, both justifying their budget and providing executives with peace of mind.

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eCommerce Integration a Top Tech Trend to Watch in 2022

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eCommerce Integration a Top Tech Trend to Watch in 2022

Technology has always evolved to adapt to a changing world and the changing needs of the people who live in it. That fact couldn’t be more evident than it has been in the past few years.

The shifting expectations of consumers and employees, fueled by the increase in hybrid and remote work environments and online shopping over the past couple of years, demands solutions that make working and shopping easier than ever. This has given rise to predictions for the top tech trends in 2022.

Tech Trends to Watch

Boomi’s 2022 Tech Trend Predictions outlines the top tech trends to follow in 2022. These tech trends include:

  • Low-code solutions – With IT staff and skill shortages looming large in the tech industry, the need for low-code solutions to accomplish digital transformations is a must.
  • Automation – Automation will be taken to the next level in 2022, relieving employees from performing manual tasks that are time-consuming and prone to error and lowering operational costs across industries.
  • Integration in the workplace – The need to work remotely a significant amount of time and The Great Resignation, both driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, has resulted in the need to develop data-driven processes and onboarding that will ensure better employee experiences.
  • The customer experience – Organizations that do not make use of integration to create a superior user experience will lose ground to their competitors.

With these trends in mind, let’s take a closer look at integration and the customer experience, particularly when it comes to ecommerce.

The Need for Integration in eCommerce

There is no industry where speed is more important than in the ecommerce industry. In the past 10 years, consumers have come to expect immediate connectivity and service at lightning speed. The COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the expectations of consumers as more and more people have turned to online shopping.

In the U.S., 52% of people are shopping more online, including grocery shopping, a domain that was once strictly a brick-and-mortar shopping experience. The UN reports that globally ecommerce has grown into a $2.9 trillion industry thanks to the pandemic.

What this means for ecommerce companies is that integration is critical to maintaining market share. This is just as true for brick-and-mortar retail companies that have an online presence as it is for strictly online ecommerce businesses.

The goal behind integration is to connect systems within your company, as well as integration your own systems with those of your partners. This includes not only your ecommerce platforms, but all supporting applications, such as inventory management, CRM, content management, digital marketing, and financial information. This will ensure that you are able to:

  • Improve data accuracy
  • Increase the speed of data exchange across systems
  • Keep your platform up-to-date
  • Provide customers with a more personalized and customized experience
  • Sync inventory in real-time across all sales channels
  • Streamline and simplify business processes
  • Improve scalability as sales volume and the number of sales channels grow

The result of this integration is that customers will be able to shop whenever and wherever they are and via any channels they wish. They will experience a seamless purchasing process and receive instantaneous communications and timely updates on orders so they will always know their status, thanks to:

  • Real-time inventory tracking
  • Instant order processing and fulfillment
  • Real-time status updates and alerts

However, in order to make this a reality, your ecommerce integration has to be of the highest quality.

Top-Quality Integration

The very best quality in ecommerce integration will ensure that your finances and inventory processes are all automated and fully integrated with your ecommerce platform. Boomi offers the first 100% cloud-based platform and is an industry leader in integrations.

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An Introduction to Mobile Application Development

An Introduction to Mobile Application DevelopmentAn Introduction to Mobile Application Development

An Introduction to Mobile Application Development

Mobile application development is the process of designing and building software for use on mobile devices. A mobile application can be pre-installed or downloaded from an app store or mobile web browser. The application must have a network connection to a remote server or computer, which is facilitated by an application programming interface (API).

Mobile Application Platforms

Most mobile applications are developed for two main smartphone platforms—the Android operating system and Apple’s iOS. While Apple creates its iOS exclusively for its own iPhones and other mobile devices, Google develops the Android system so that it can be used on devices other than their own.

Each of these platforms requires different software development kits (SDKs) and each uses different development tools. It is common for developers to develop mobile applications to be compatible with both Android and iOS.

Types of Mobile Applications

There are four types of mobile applications that are typically developed, each of which comes with advantages and disadvantages. They are:

Native Mobile Applications

Native mobile applications are developed strictly to be run on the operating system of the target device, whether that is Android or iOS. This means they are developed using the programming language and frameworks that are provided by Google or Apple.

These applications offer the best runtime performance, plus they provide direct access to the APIs of the device. However, they cost more to build and maintain and there is more than one code-base for each platform, making it more complex and requiring a highly specialized skillset to develop.

Cross-platform Native Mobile Applications

These are mobile applications that are initially developed using multiple programming languages and frameworks but are then assembled specifically to be used on a specific operating system.

With a single code base that can be used for multiple platforms, this is a more versatile option. The applications are easy to build and maintain, but there are limitations to their performance because of the need for bridging and the use of libraries for native device features.

Hybrid Mobile Applications

These are mobile applications that are developed using standard web programming languages, such as HTML5 and JavaScript. Once created, they are bundled into app installation packages. They can then operate on a web container that makes it possible for the app to run on a browser and on native devices via an API.

The code base for these mobile applications is shared between the app and the web. This means mobile applications can be built using a web development skillset. However, these applications come with lower performance when compared to native applications. There is also limited support when it comes to native device features.

Progressive Web Applications

Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are web applications that are fully available via a web browser. This means they are not available via an app store and there is no app installation required. The experience is just like using a true application, but with the benefits of operating via a browser, such as running background processes and linking to the home screen of the device.

This type of mobile application provides the most flexibility because the same application can be used on a mobile device and on the web. Plus, there is no installation required. Instead, the app is available via a URL. Again, this type of application offers limited support when it comes to native device features and the capabilities of the app are browser dependent.

Mobile Application Development Lifecycle

Mobile Application Development Lifecycle

Mobile applications rely on two core components—the mobile application itself, known as the “front-end,” which is integrated with the cloud-based “backend.” The backend supports the mobile front-end, supplying it with the data required to run and comply with user requests. Communication between the backend and the front end takes place via APIs.

In most cases, a mobile application programmer is a person with the skillset and knowledge to develop the front-end application that resides on the user’s device. The development of the front end can be done by a single person or a team of people. The application development lifecycle is comprised of the following steps:

  • Development
  • Testing
  • Release
  • Monitoring
  • Analysis

These steps are repeated as necessary until the application is running smoothly.

In many cases, the backend services are provided by a third party. Only when the mobile application backend is highly specific to the application domain and there are intellectual property concerns will mobile application programmers build their own backend. When it comes to the backend development lifecycle, it is similar to that of the front-end, as follows:

  • Development
  • Testing
  • Release
  • Monitoring
  • Analysis

There is also a new method of application development known as low-code app development.This is a method of developing applications that make it easy for people with little coding experience to build an app using a highly visual drag-and-drop interface. The benefit of this ethod of application development is that non-IT people can easily develop apps with very little knowledge of coding, taking the pressure off IT teams and helping minimize IT backlog.

Mobile Application Development Services

Mobile applications require many different services that can be supplied by a third party, making the development process easier. These include:

  • Management of user sign-up/sign-in
  • Social media login
  • User engagement/analytics
  • Push notifications
  • Real device testing
  • Cloud storage
  • Offline and real-time data
  • Cloud functions
  • Application logic
  • Conversational bots
  • Speech recognition
  • Video and image recognition

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